I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

I have never really been a great artist. I have been a human being that has loved art, which is not the same thing. But I have loved and believed in art and the idea of universal brotherhood so much, that I have put everything I have into them, and I have been blessed.

Each time I leaped I seemed to touch the sky and when I regained earth it seemed to be mine alone.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

I shall dance all my life. . . . I would like to die, breathless, spent, at the end of a dance.

Since I personified the savage on the stage, I tried to be as civilized as possible in daily life.

The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.